Bawa

Why should anyone read Soleri’s book? Answer: because that is the best way to gain access to some very remarkable ideas—ideas that will challenge just about everything all the rest of us keep doing, day after day.

How do you get from starting small to doing something great? By making successive versions. Great things are almost always made in successive versions. You start with something small and evolve it, and the final version is both cleverer and more ambitious than anything you could have planned.

The Fourth Turning (aka Strauss-Howe generational theory):

The idea that history is not linear but helical, because civilization has its own seasons

Recently, I saw this question on Twitter: “What is the equivalent of a musician practicing scales for what you do?”

For me, it’s thinking and ideating. These are the activities of my core work. I seek to understand problems better, and develop my and others’ ideas further.

Saying “ideas don’t matter; only shipping products matter” to a product creato... See more